Tag: Internet
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers just approved the .GOP top-level domain, ushering in an era of Republican websites that advertise their party affiliation right in the URL. You’ll be able to get your .GOP address in 75 days. The move is at least partially an effort to increase online fundraising for the […]
Just two years ago, as Valeria Lukyanova rose to viral notoriety, the combination of her extreme physical appearance “justified” by New Age-ish rambling seemed almost quirky. Tabloids turned her into a walking world-wide trend piece with an internet army of copycats and fans and a trailer of hate blogs. V Magazine flew the “controversial” and “extraordinary” micro-waisted, giant-breasted, blank-faced […]
A page on Facebook that purported to be the official account of British street artist Banksy was stripped of its verified status earlier this afternoon. The page has about 2.4 million likes and posts several items a day, which, given Banksy’s notoriously shadowy reputation, seemed odd, but the little blue check mark seemed to confirm […]
The condition of not being willing and/or able to form relationships with people you met online has a name: cyberasociality, as coined by researchers at Cornell and the University of North Carolina. It’s counterpart — the openness towards or even preference for internet friends — is called cybersociality (no “a”). Cyberasocial people, as defined by […]
Artist Jen Lowe is wearing her heart on her website. That is to say, her project One Human Heartbeat displays the rhythm of her cardiac muscle online, broadcasting every contraction on a softly glowing red circle for the internet to see. Lowe tracks her pulse with a Basis smartwatch, and because there’s no way to stream […]
In a Reddit AMA yesterday, World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee revealed the terrible alternate names he considered for his most famous creation: “The Information Mine,” “The Mine of Information,” and “The Mesh.” “None had quite the right ring,” he added. He also offered up opinions on more consequential topics. On Snowden: I think he […]
Tune in: Wide-band WebSDR is a web-based ham radio on steroids that samples the entire shortwave spectrum. You and dozens of others can tune into radio transmissions worldwide, courtesy of the ETGD amateur radio club at the University of Twente in the Netherlands. Listen to Tibetan music and amateurs chattin’. Check out illegal pirate radio stations. Eavesdrop […]
Want to smash some shit? Go to AiWeiweiWhoops.Net. Why? When painter Maximo Caminero threw and shattered an Ai Weiwei’s artwork in Miami last week, we didn’t buy his excuse: “I saw Ai Weiwei’s photos behind the vases where he drops an ancient Chinese vase and breaks it. And I saw it as a provocation by Weiwei […]
In his post “Why We Don’t Sell Ads,” co-founder of WhatsApp, Jan Koum rails against in-app ads and quotes Fight Club. Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don’t need. – Tyler Durden, Fight Club But that was in 2012, before Facebook acquired the messaging application for a whopping […]
Would you like to randomly hook up with strangers (plural) using your phone? Do you find yourself in blissful, accidental monogamy, longing for eXXXtracurricular activities with your partner? Or are you one of those “unicorn” types? Apparently there’s a new Tinder-type app called 3nder, for “Threesomes made easy.” This is “a service that works for singles and couples,” “swingers […]
